Internationale Koalition der Kulturschaffenden in Solidarität mit der Ukraine

The phase of reacting to the war in Ukraine is gradually passing. Yet the war is not over: it is not abstract, it is still going on. Although it may not seem visible so much in Europe, every day hundreds of people are being killed, violated, and traumatized. The war is reducing the regimes of stability to ruins, taking lives and destroying families and social links. The artworks on the »antiwarcoaltion.art« platform have been selected to remind people about the ongoing violence, enemy occupation, and violation of human rights that is taking place right now not far away, in a “remoter neighborhood.” The works exhibited on the platform seek to stress the fact that every one of us (all over the world) is affected in one way or another by this war — physically, economically, psychologically. This is a shared tragedy that must be confronted by a shared responsibility that refuses to allow genocide in the 21st century.

»antiwarcoaltion.art« is an open online platform that collects, shares, and distributes statements against the war created by artists from all over the world. As a response to the Russian aggression and war against Ukraine, this platform presents an opportunity to protest against war, dictatorship, and authoritarianism. It is an opportunity to express solidarity with those in Ukraine who are directly affected by Russian military aggression, and with those resisting colonial, patriarchal, imperialistic, and political repression and terror elsewhere.

One of the members of the curatorial team of the The International Coalition of Cultural Workers Against the War in Ukraine is Tatiana Kochubinska (*1985, Kyiv, Ukraine). After Russia invaded Ukraine, Tatiana was curator-in-residence at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe from June to August 2022. Tatiana Kochubinska currently lives and works in Dresden, Germany, where she is co-curating the exhibition »Kaleidoscope of (Hi)stories. Ukrainian Art 1912–2023« at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden – Albertinum.

Work selection art KARLSRUHE 2023:

Bergamot (BY), Organic Life, 2006
Video, b/w, sound, 02:01

Bouillon Group (GE), Porridge from a Kalashnikov, 2015
Video, color, sound, 02:37

Anna Chkolnikova (BY), Amnesia, 2023
Digital image, color, sound, 01:17

Rezzan Gümgüm (TR), Jump, 2019
Video, solor, sound, 00:58

Yurii Ivantsyk (UA), How many more sacrifices does it take for the world to wake up?, 2022
Video, color, no sound, 00:24

Zhanna Kadyrova (UA), Russian Rocket, 2022
Video, color, no sound, 03:36

Alevtina Kakhidze (UA), I stand with plants and do not run, 2022
Video, color, no sound, 01:24